Feedback & Reports

3 Bream up to 3.5lb
2 Roach

5 Other

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Tough conditions - gusty and frequent rain showers. Sporadic small hatches of mayfly and march browns but very few rises until late evening. One BT (estimated at around 1lb) hooked in fast flowing water on PTN but lost at the net! 2nd BT (1.5lb) caught off the top with mayfly merger in the last 30mins of daylight just as a few fish were beginning to rise.

1 Trout

We fished Cwm Dwythwch. 3 small brown trout caught and released, less than 8 inches.
All caught on a similar wet march brown spider.
No larger fish seen and very limited rising. I got the sense the larger fish were still deep.
We did see a chap spinning with some kind of weighted lure, casting 50 yards.

3 Trout

Another difficult day on the Usk. Very few fish rising.

1 chub and 7 shad accidentally caught. No salmon seen all day. The river was looking beautiful despite the agricultural/water industry eutrophication that was evident.

1 Chub, 7 Other

2 Trout

A day of three parts. In the morning the weather was benign, but the trout weren't moving. As I stopped for a sandwich the cold front arrived, a cool breeze and showers. And in those conditions I caught a nice trout on a downstream nymph in broken water. Then the weather cheered up again, a few trout started rising, but not in places I could reach with a dry fly. Fascinating!

1 Trout

A long, but enjoyable 9hrs on the Usk res. Bit rough for the fly, but spinning using some size 0/size 1 copper coloured spinners and little minnow lures came though, landing us a total of x2 rainbows, x3 Little browns, and x4 Perch.

5 Trout, 4 Other

River quite low and water cold for time of year.
Very little surface activity. A beautiful beat and we will return.